Steroid-responsive focal epilepsy with focal dystonia accompanied by glutamate receptor delta2 antibody

Journal of Neuroimmunology

Volumn 249, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 101-104

  Matsumoto, Hideyuki ^a   Okabe, Shingo ^a   Hirakawa Yamada, Minako ^a   Takahashi, Yukitoshi ^b   Satoh, Noboru ^a   Igeta, Yukifusa ^a   Hashida, Hideji ^a  

^a JAPANESE RED CROSS MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^b SHIZUOKA INSTITUTE OF EPILEPSY AND NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dystonia; Epilepsy; Glutamate receptor antibody; Neurosyphilis

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR DELTA2 ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; LAMOTRIGINE; PENICILLIN G; PHENYTOIN; RECEPTOR ANTIBODY; STEROID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZONISAMIDE;

ADULT; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARM MUSCLE; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DRUG EFFICACY; FOCAL DYSTONIA; FOCAL EPILEPSY; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFLAMMATION; LEG MUSCLE; MALE; NEUROSYPHILIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RARE DISEASE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SYMPTOM; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; AUTOANTIBODIES; AUTOANTIGENS; DYSTONIC DISORDERS; EPILEPSY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSYPHILIS; RECEPTORS, GLUTAMATE; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 84863437562     PISSN: 01655728     EISSN: 18728421     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroim.2012.04.009     Document Type: Article

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